Thomas More

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January 29, 1476 in The United Kingdom

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June 26, 1535

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Sir Thomas More also known as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, scholar, author, and statesman. During his life he gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist, a violent opponent of the Reformation of Martin Luther, and a government official. For the last six years of his life he was Lord Chancellor.

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Average rating: 3.39 · 12,440 ratings · 648 reviews · 84 distinct works

	Utopia by Thomas More, Paul Turner (Annotations) 3.39 avg rating — 12,369 ratings — published 1516 — 223 editions	My rating:
	Utopia with Erasmus's The Sileni of Alcibiades by Thomas More, David Wootton, trans. 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	The History of King Richard III by Thomas More, Wendy Beckett (Foreword by), Sir Thomas More 2.82 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1518 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Sadness of Christ: And Final Prayers and Instructions by Thomas More, Clarence H. Miller, Gerard Wegemer 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1535 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Last Letters of Thomas More by Thomas More, Alvaro De Silva 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	My rating:
	A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1534 — 25 editions	My rating:
	Four Last Things: The Supplication of Souls: A Dialogue on Conscience 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Τρία κείμενα για την ουτοπία: Thomas More Ουτοπία, Francis Bacon Νέα Ατλαντίς, Henry Neville Η νήσος των Πάιν by Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Henry Neville 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Thomas More Sourcebook by Thomas More, Gerard B. Wegemer (Editor), Gerard Wegemer (Editor) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Dialogue Concerning Heresies 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1529 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. ”
― Thomas More

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“What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.”
― Thomas More

tags: accomplishment , carpe-diem

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“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.”
― Thomas More

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Classic Read January-February 2012

We have a lot of books to choose from. As always the winner will be the book with the most votes.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

3 votes, 15.8%

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

3 votes, 15.8%

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

3 votes, 15.8%

Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier

2 votes, 10.5%

Howards End by E.M. Forster

2 votes, 10.5%

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

2 votes, 10.5%

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

2 votes, 10.5%

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

1 vote, 5.3%

Utopia by Thomas More

1 vote, 5.3%

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor by R.D. Blackmore

0 votes, 0.0%

Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett

0 votes, 0.0%

The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

0 votes, 0.0%

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

0 votes, 0.0%

19 total votes

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